Hi, On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:26:30PM -0800, Gabe E. Nydick wrote: > How come if I install a fresh redhat 7.2 system and change fstab from > defaults to data=journal for the / file system, it breaks everything? Because you can't change the data journaling mode for a mounted filesystem --- ext3 complains if you try --- and /etc/fstab is not readable when root first gets mounted, so it necessarily always gets mounted with the default ordered journaling mode. I'll hopefully overcome this limitation in the future, either by getting mkinitrd to read the journaling mode from fstab when creating the initial mount script, or by letting ext3 store journaling modes persistently in the filesystem superblock so that we can set a different default for root. Cheers, Stephen
